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COVID-19, mental health and Indigenous populations in Brazil: The epidemic beyond the pandemic

The aim of this paper was to report on factors contributing to the deterioration of the mental health of Indigenous populations (IP) in Brazil. Five factors seem to have a direct impact on the mental health of IP in Brazil: (1) The absence of public policies; (2) Intellectual production; (3) Psychia...

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Autores principales: Gonçalves Júnior, Jucier, Freitas, Jucycler Ferreira, Cândido, Estelita Lima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35663293
http://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v12.i5.766
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author Gonçalves Júnior, Jucier
Freitas, Jucycler Ferreira
Cândido, Estelita Lima
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description The aim of this paper was to report on factors contributing to the deterioration of the mental health of Indigenous populations (IP) in Brazil. Five factors seem to have a direct impact on the mental health of IP in Brazil: (1) The absence of public policies; (2) Intellectual production; (3) Psychiatric medical care for remote areas (e.g., telemedicine) aimed at promoting the mental health of Brazil’s IP, which causes a huge gap in the process of assistance and social, psychological, economic and cultural valorization of native peoples; (4) The dissemination of fake news, which exposed, above all, older IP to risk behaviors in the pandemic, such as refusal of vaccination; and (5) The violence carried out on IP lands due to economic interests with mining/agribusiness.
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spelling pubmed-91500362022-06-04 COVID-19, mental health and Indigenous populations in Brazil: The epidemic beyond the pandemic Gonçalves Júnior, Jucier Freitas, Jucycler Ferreira Cândido, Estelita Lima World J Psychiatry Letter to the Editor The aim of this paper was to report on factors contributing to the deterioration of the mental health of Indigenous populations (IP) in Brazil. Five factors seem to have a direct impact on the mental health of IP in Brazil: (1) The absence of public policies; (2) Intellectual production; (3) Psychiatric medical care for remote areas (e.g., telemedicine) aimed at promoting the mental health of Brazil’s IP, which causes a huge gap in the process of assistance and social, psychological, economic and cultural valorization of native peoples; (4) The dissemination of fake news, which exposed, above all, older IP to risk behaviors in the pandemic, such as refusal of vaccination; and (5) The violence carried out on IP lands due to economic interests with mining/agribusiness. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9150036/ /pubmed/35663293 http://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v12.i5.766 Text en ©The Author(s) 2022. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Gonçalves Júnior, Jucier
Freitas, Jucycler Ferreira
Cândido, Estelita Lima
COVID-19, mental health and Indigenous populations in Brazil: The epidemic beyond the pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35663293
http://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v12.i5.766
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